xthexder
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- Comment on Musk, AI and the weaponization of "administrative error" 18 hours ago:
the Weaponization of ‘Administrative Error’
This describes my experience with sooo many customer support systems. Administrative errors are a feature, not a bug.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how you arrived at lime the mineral being a more likely question than lime the fruit. I’d expect someone asking about kidney stones would also be asking about foods that are commonly consumed.
This kind of just goes to show there’s multiple ways something can be interpreted. Maybe a smart human would ask for clarification, but for sure AIs today will just happily spit out the first answer that comes up. LLMs are extremely “good” at making up answers to leading questions, even if it’s completely false.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 weeks ago:
The tension of the strings would actually be a pretty miniscule amount of energy too, since there’s very little stretch to a piano wire, the force might be high, but the potential energy/work done to tension the wire is low (done by hand with a wrench).
Compared to burning a piece of wood, which would release orders of magnitude more energy.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
There are a couple situations where it’s annoying and I turn it off. My truck has the “steer back into lane” style assist, but it’s tried to push me off the road before while I was towing a trailer on some narrow 1-lane roads. Some of the corners it’s just not possible to get around without touching the center line.
The vast majority of the time it stays on though and is quite helpful.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
If anything I think they would have to use a green light that turns on when not braking. It would be way more dangerous in the future when people are trained with “No green = braking” but older cars don’t have the light at all. It’s important to consider how a transition like this would even work. I personally think this is a little too drastic of a change, and is incompatible with existing vehicles and habits.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
Cars with lane-keep assist with vibrate the steering wheel and beep at you. It’s at least something but I think most people turn it off if it gets annoying
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
They could use traffic light green. There’s not any problems identifying those even in places with the lights mounted horizontally. There’s enough difference in saturation you can tell the difference even with colorblindness.
- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July 2 weeks ago:
Non-exclusive just means you’re free to give a copy of your content to whoever you want. It doesn’t mean Reddit is obligated to distribute it for you.
- Comment on Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude 2 weeks ago:
Dieselgate wasn’t a “bug” it was an designed in feature to circumvent emissions. Claude absolutely would have done the same, since it’s exactly what the designers would have asked it for. Somehow I doubt it would have gone undetected as long if Claude wrote it tho, it’d probably mess it up some other way.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 3 weeks ago:
Well, Kioxia sells a 30TB 2.5in SSD right now for about $5k. I’m sure they could make a 60+TB SSD by just stacking 2 of them in a 3.5in case.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 3 weeks ago:
From what the article says, this fuel cell produces sodium oxide by reacting sodium with oxygen. There’s no hydrogen gas being produced in the fuel cell.
The emissions are sodium hydroxide, or sodium carbonate after it reacts with carbon in the air.
(Also now I’m not sure where I got 1200Wh/kg from. The article says both 1000 and 1500 Wh/kg)
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 3 weeks ago:
They’re comparing it to lithium batteries for power density, but ignoring that the sodium metal in this case is a consumable, unlike batteries.
They say it’s 1200 Wh / kg of sodium, however gasoline is a whole 3800 Wh / kg, and somehow I think the carbon dioxide is less harmful than the same amount of sodium hydroxide. Not to mention how much more complicated storing liquid sodium would be since it reacts with air.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 3 weeks ago:
It would be make/model dependent
I’m specially talking about Tesla’s FSD/Autopilot.
While getting a demo of FSD from a friend, their Model 3 correctly stopped at a red light, and 30 seconds later a car ran right through it in the next lane over. That’s how low the bar is for “worst human driver”. Tbh, that human shouldn’t have been on the road if they’re driving past stopped cars through a red light. - Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 3 weeks ago:
The problem is, it’s already better than the worst human drivers, it’s just that that’s too low a bar. It’s a looong way away from being better than the best human drivers (think taxi and bus drivers who do it every day, or police who actually go through extra vehicle handling training)
- Comment on Can Tesla's Self-Driving Software Handle Bus-Only Lanes? Not Reliably, No. 4 weeks ago:
There’s plenty of evidence of other people with the same v13.2.8 version before their crash on Feb 27, for example:
- Comment on Can Tesla's Self-Driving Software Handle Bus-Only Lanes? Not Reliably, No. 4 weeks ago:
Well now you’ve made me go read all their Reddit comments. It happened February 27, and they said it took 2 months for their insurance to get processed. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me to wait until they’ve got everything sorted out before posting.
Based on pictures of the dash cam files they posted, I don’t think they have internal video, they would have had to turn it on before hand I think? Tesla mostly talks about sentry mode internal camera, so I don’t actually know if it would record by default. But again, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect them to edit a video with face blurring and everything, they don’t owe the Internet anything, and not everyone even knows how.
- Comment on Can Tesla's Self-Driving Software Handle Bus-Only Lanes? Not Reliably, No. 4 weeks ago:
Where are you getting February from? As far as I know this happened last week. I don’t blame the person not wanting to reveal their face.
- Comment on Can Tesla's Self-Driving Software Handle Bus-Only Lanes? Not Reliably, No. 4 weeks ago:
Did you watch the video? There’s no way that it was just “user error”, nobody randomly swerves into a tree when nothing’s there. Maybe you’re implying it was insurance fraud?
Tesla gives out beta access to users, so I wouldn’t put too much weight on that claimed version they were using.
- Comment on Can Tesla's Self-Driving Software Handle Bus-Only Lanes? Not Reliably, No. 4 weeks ago:
FSD wouldn’t have done any better, it can’t even figure out shadows on the road properly as seen in this crash 3 days ago:
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 weeks ago:
Anything that’s per-commit is part of the “build” in my opinion.
But if you’re running a language server and have stuff like format-on-save enabled, it’s going to use a lot more power as you’re coding.
But like you said, text editing is a small part of the workflow, and looking up docs and browsing code should barely require any CPU, a phone can do it with fractions of a Watt, and a PC should be underclocking when the CPU is underused.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 weeks ago:
It sounds like it does save you a lot of time then. I haven’t had the same experience, but I did all my learning to program before LLMs.
Personally I think the amount of power saved here is negligible, but it would actually be an interesting study to see just how much it is.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t even say which direction it was misleading, it’s just not really a valid comparison to compare a single invocation of an LLM with a continuous task.
You’re comparing Volume of Water with Flow Rate. Or if this was power, you’d be comparing Energy (Joules or kWh) with Power (Watts)
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 weeks ago:
Just writing code uses almost no energy. Your PC should be clocking down when you’re not doing anything. 1GHz is plenty for text editing.
Does ChatGPT reduce the number of times you hit build? Because that’s where all the electricity goes.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 weeks ago:
Asking ChatGPT a question doesn’t take 1 hour like most of these… this is a very misleading graph
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 1 month ago:
Except in this case they’re defrauding customers instead of corporate like in Office Space…
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure Tesla has offered delivery to a home pretty much from the very beginning. I remember they had some money back guarantee when they announced it because obviously you can’t test drive if you don’t go to a dealership.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 months ago:
I’d be fine if there were no more car ads tbh. Sounds like another “not my problem”.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 2 months ago:
Oh neat, this is basically an electric Kei truck. The front looks a little weird with the wheels so far forward. Reminds me of a golf cart. I can’t really complain though, I’d love a small practical truck.
- Comment on Are Future Chips Doomed to Overheat? 2 months ago:
Yeah… chip designers have been battling heat output since silicon doping was invented. The main source of heat is transistors change state, since it doesn’t happen instantly and will disipate more heat when half-on, acting almost like a resistor.
The higher the clock speed, the more time a transistor spends half-on. This is why things like undervolting and underclocking reduce power usage.
Physically smaller transistors usually also means it takes less electrons to saturate the gate, so it allows lower voltages and currents to be used, while still toggling the state at the same speed. (Not to mention timing gets easier the closer the transistors are to each other) - Comment on World's fastest Flash memory developed: writes in just 400 picoseconds 2 months ago:
1 bit / 400 picoseconds is 2.5Gbit/s, or 10x slower than a 1-bit GDDR7 bus.